该系提供音乐学三个学位课程：MA（通常为一年），MFA（通常为两年）和​​PhD（通常在完成MFA要求后两年或更长时间）。这些程序提供了一种综合的方法来理解音乐的性质，结构基础和历史发展。学生可以选择强调或专注于音乐史或理论与分析。在音乐史课程中，包括风格开发，资料研究和史学在内的各种技术和方法被应用于不同的曲目和历史问题。该理论和分析程序的特色是理论史上的工作，以及在理论构建的背景下进行的分析工作，其中涉及对色觉，色调和当代分析模型的评估。
The musicology program at Brandeis offers an integrated approach to the study of music and its many contexts. We combine close critical attention to musical works with investigation into the historical, cultural, intellectual, and institutional factors that have shaped the creation and reception of those works. Our graduate curriculum is expansive, encompassing both intensive seminars on specific topics and proseminars that expose students to a variety of methodologies and new developments in the field.<br><br>The Brandeis Department of Music was well represented at the recent 2019 meeting of the American Musicological Society:<br><br> PhD Candidate Matthew Heck delivered a paper titled ''Chromatic Bifurcation and the Philosophy of Disunity in Shostakovich.''<br> PhD Candidate Jacques Dupuis gave a poster presentation (with Kathryn Dupuis) titled ''(Who Isn't) On the Radio: Gender Disparity in Classical Radio Programming.''<br> Faculty member Karen Desmond was awarded the Lewis Lockwood Award (best book by scholar in early stages) for her book Music and the moderni, 1300-1350: The ars nova in theory and practice, she also was a panelist in the Digital Musicology session, and chaired the AMS Technology Committee meeting.